Nudist at Heart

Nudist at Heart

Doodling, I don’t now where a specific doodle comes from. Do you? I sit down and with an implement in my hand I touch the drawing surface and the line appears, my hand moves. It’s instinctual, intuitive, a mind of it’s own. A line that chooses to be this way or that way, to take form and soon completed. I usually don’t remember the middle and what happens along the way. Do you? Do you doodle? Are you like me on the phone, or sitting thinking at a table and find yourself drawing something? I’ve noticed that we all have a very distinctive line. Even a straight line, drawn by two separate people can have a distinctive difference.
This particular drawing, the woman figure, was one of those instinctive travels my hand took. The rest of the image was completed in Adobe Photoshop using line art, photoshop brushes I’ve created, layers, layer blending modes and selective color. Admittedly it’s a bit of an oddball and a bit on the racy side, even for me. But the best part is it’s 2013 and the art is flowing!

New Drawings, 2013

New Drawings, 2013

The Things I’ve Seen.
I have been drawing eyes since I was a child, ever fascinated by their singular expressiveness and the detail within. How the iris is like a fingerprint, how the lashes curl, the pupils and their changing diameter, the richness and color. I saw Donna Summer in a TV interview one late night many years ago saying the eyes were the windows to the soul. Though it’s a common phrase now it was the first time I had heard it and it made a difference. Drawing an eye is one of those default things I have, we all have. When I pick up a pen or pencil most of the time it’s the first thing I draw. I’ve drawn so many of them I don’t even bother to save them though some have been pretty cool. I think I’m going to be drawing a bit more too. Still doing it digitally though and possibly adding versions of the same image. At least that’s what this one inspired me to do. It’s my favorite hobby– making digital art.

Holy Smokes I made a gif!

Dizzy Bunny!, line drawing animationFun with animation, a line drawing I did on this lazy and sweet Sunday. The best way to learn anything is to do it again and again! This is one of those things I’ve wanted to learn for so long– simple gif animations. It is simple but definitely a little confusing at first. Nothing like making it work using 58 layers!